Table 5. Impact of having an employee with ASD in the workplace.

Impacta	n	%
Increased awareness regarding people with ASD in the workplace	35	59.3
Positive adaption in workplace culture to include and make the employee with autism feel part of the team	33	55.9
New creative and different skills have been brought to the workplace	19	32.2
Improvements in workplace morale	14	23.7
Lack of ASD-specific knowledge often leads to miscommunication between colleagues	7	11.9
Need for continuous workplace supervision of this employee has increased workload for other staff	10	16.9
Lack of ASD-specific staff training has resulted in an increase in workplace conflict between colleagues	5	8.5
Decreased productivity by the team	0	0.0
Other impacts	8	13.6
Not applicable	2	3.4

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